Trouble Adding New Large Hard Drive

[RustyMajor]

I have an old ASUS P4S533 Motherboard and I'm trying to add a new large hard drive to it, but the OS will only recognize 137GB. I know this is due to the 48bit LBA issue, but I can't get past it.

I have confirmed this board and the BIOS I am on (1010) will support large drives. In fact, the BIOS recognizes it properly. When I get into windows, it will not see past 137GB, though.

I have applied Windows 2000 SP4 and added the LBA registry key as suggest in KB article here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Each time I get into Disk Management, it greets me with the unformatted capacity of 128GB.

Help me here, I'm going crazy!
Thanks!!!

 

[SimonDavies]

Are you sure that the board itself will recognise larger than 128gb? it could well be that the controller card on the board is limited to 28bit addressing rather than 48bit and if that's the case the only things you could do would be to get a PCI controller card or replace the motherboard.

SimonD.

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